Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 7, 1957
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters..
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election..
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its o….
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one ….
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them..
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty ….
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store pet….
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason.
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate..
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together..
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them..
People perish. Books are immortal..
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power..
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time..
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will ….
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology..
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products..
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected..
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all tha….
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?.
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansi….